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Robert Streit

Robert (Bert) grew up on the Indian Ocean coast in Kenya and after his undergraduate degree in biology in Munich, Germany, that early connection to tropical reefs washed back to the surface. In 2013 he came to JCU in Townsville to study marine biology and ecology as a postgraduate. He completed his postgraduate research on feeding selectivity in browsing herbivorous fishes in the Bellwood Lab in 2014 and started his PhD Candidature in early 2016. In his research, supervised by David Bellwood and Graeme Cumming, Bert is focusing on patterns of movement and space use in herbivorous reef fish – essentially trying to understand how fishes move around their home and how this influences reef resilience.